Six Kilotons

We're proud to announce this exclusive special preview of Bruce Springsteen's upcoming album Red Dust.

Here's an exclusive look at one of the tracks, a reimagining of the country classic Sixteen Tons. These are the new lyrics!

Six Kilotons

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Steel and circuits and a cyber jack
A mind that's a-weak and a plasteel back

You load six kilotons, what do you get
A Martian day older and deeper in debt
Space Peter don't you call me 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the corporation

I was born in the timeslip when the sun don't shine
Fired up my thrusters and flew to the mine
I loaded six kilotons of deuterium
And the straw boss said "Well, fiddle-dee-dum"

You load six kilotons, what do you get
A Martian day older and deeper in debt
Space Peter don't you call me 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the corporation

I was born in the timeslip on the Chryse plain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the arco by an ol' mama lion
Cain't no-a lo-grav woman make me walk the line

You load six kilotons, what do you get
A Martian day older and deeper in debt
Space Peter don't you call me 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the corporation

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of flesh, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you
Then the left one will

You load six kilotons, what do you get
A Martian day older and deeper in debt
Space Peter don't you call me 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the corporation

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New Cardigans album

The Cardigans are back with their latest album, Angry Birds!

Commenting on the title of the album, Peter Svensson said: "The title can be interpreted in many ways but I think we only thought of a few ones we liked." Nina Persson explained: "we talked about having like English title and Angry Birds came up and it sort of felt really good." Svensson continues: "You know, we were thinking like with what everything that's happening with global warming and everything with the environment, that if you were a bird and you knew about it, would you be like really angry? So I guess it's kind of an environmental thing."

"I think that also the title suits this very album extremely well because the album is pretty much about being a bird, and also being angry. I think sometimes you can always compare living to being a bird in the world," Nina finishes.

The first single will be the song "Stupid Pigs". The band declined to comment on the name of the song or its relationship to the album title.

The music video, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, features singer Nina Persson as a demonstrator taking part in a riot, and the rest of the band as riot policemen. The video was shot entirely in the Czech Republic, at a cost of 2 million USD, and includes brutal scenes of rioting, with protestors overturning police cars and setting them on fire, and being assaulted by officers in riot gear while helicopters circle overhead. Fifty-eight different versions of the video were shot in an effort to get MTV to play at least one of them. The eventual MTV video features Nina Persson walking along a city street and singing the song.

Bonus interview footage for Finnish speakers here!